The Nile Hilton Incident Review | Movie Trailer 2017

The Nile Hilton Incident is a 2017 Swedish thriller movie. It was directed and written by Tarik Saleh. The movie cast starts Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yaser Aly Maher, Slimane Daze, Ahmed Seleem, Mohamed Yousry, Hania Amar. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section in Sundance Film Festival, 2017. It was preset to be released in the USA on August 11th, 2017 by Strand Releasing.

Proof that classical genres are always prepared to be retrofitted for the modern era, “The Nile Hilton Incident” transplants the dark. Cynical heart of movie noir to the roads of Cairo in the days leading up to the 2011 revolution that would, at last, oust President Hosni Mubarak.

Noredin’s inquiry immediately points him toward Shafiq, a real-estate developer and parliament member. Shafiq denies responsibility for the death of the girl, a local singer and prostitute named Lalena, who it turns out working with a sleazy pimp named Nagy to take photos of her clients that could then be used as blackmail.

The Nile Hilton Incident is a political thriller based on a true story. Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian revolution. A police officer Noredin in Cairo’s corrupt system investigates the kill of a famed club singer at the Nile Hilton Hotel. Initially, the crime of passion turns into something that concerns the very power elite of Egypt. Noredin realizing this and decides to break the rules in order to obtain justice, colliding not only with the whole system but also with himself.